So I have xmonad running remotely. All is good and I'm using the Win key instead of Alt. The problem is, when I want to resize an xmonad window with Alt+L, this locks the screen in my Windows desktop. ...

As of recent changes to xmonad.hs (importing and using MouseResizeableTile layout and FindEmptyWorkspace action) xmonad --recompile's fine and if I log out and in again all is well, but if I issue an ...

I modified a default config of xmonad filled with commented explanations. All I did was change defaultModMask = mod1Mask. to mod4Mask The config later uses the var to set the actual modmask I'm not ...

One of the key bindings in my ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file is this:
((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_q), io (exitWith ExitSuccess))
So, I tried to use this pattern to make a binding that would cycle through ...

Good evening, sorry to bother you with basic question.
Recently, i moved to xmonad. I'm very new to haskell and tried to learn it little by little. I want to make workspace name in xmonad to display ...

I have a few vertically stacked tiles on the left, and some on the right. I can easily horizontally resize the master pane (with mod + l and mod + h), but I'd like to vertically resize some windows ...

I'm trying to configure xmonad to work as I want it to in Ubuntu 14. Since I'm not familiar with Haskell's syntax, I took 3 configuration files and removed what I didn't like and kept what I liked. I ...

I know XMobar supports bitmap icons and I was able to configure those. However I also want to use icons for indicating current XMonad layout, but XMobar gets it on stdin from XMonad. And I couldn't ...

I would like to configure XMonad so that a certain IO () function is evaluated whenever a window is focused, so that I can change some aspects of the environment depending on which window this was. I ...

I am using xmonad (with minimal configuration, main = xmonad gnomeConfig{ modMask = mod4Mask, terminal = "gnome-terminal" }) and my computer has two monitors and I am using xinerama.
This works, but ...

I am using xmonad, and wanted a nice way to lock the screen. So I installed slock (apt-get install slock), and it works great.
Then I wanted an easy key sequence to trigger slock, so I defined this ...

I find it a bit awkward in xmonad to switch back and forth between two windows. Is there an extension (or a part of core xmonad) which allows this?
For example, I want to switch between firefox and ...

I'm new to xmonad and haskell. I try to create a xmonad config on my own, this is the current state: https://gist.github.com/sbechtel/7900440
My problem is the submap on line 45 for different search ...

I use xmonad and I changed my keyboard with xmodmap to use my alt gr key as tab.
I moved my Super_L to the tab key, this is my modm key for xmonad.
It works very well in other applications, but not ...

I use xmonad as window manager and I love it. However the configuration for me is a bit wired because I just copied snippets together to make it do what I want. The problem is that I didn't understand ...

I'm setting up mouse gestures in my xmonad.hs, and I'd like to avoid using a modMask modifier to get keyboard-free gestures. Problem is, there are cases (e.g. empty gesture, just a simple click) where ...